Funky? What's funky?

Morning all.
The ongoing weekly challenges over at Through The Purple Haze had me reaching for the dictionary. Week 7 and the challenge title is "Funky Girls and Boys" !!
Well the first definition was an unusual theme to say the least
1. a. Having a mouldy or musty smell: funky cheese; funky cellars.
b. Having a strong, offensive, unwashed odour.
They can't mean that. I looked on further... relating to Music
2. a. Of or relating to music that has an earthy quality reminiscent of the blues.
b. Combining elements of jazz, blues, and soul and characterized by syncopated rhythm and a heavy, repetitive bass line.
ok and reading the last bit......
3. Slang Earthy and uncomplicated; natural: "At the opposite end of Dallas's culinary spectrum is funky regional fare" (Jacqueline Friedrich).
4. Slang
a. Characterized by originality and modishness; unconventional: "a bizarre, funky [hotel ] dressed up as a ship, with mock portholes and mirrored ceilings over the beds" (Ann Louise Bardach).
b. Outlandishly vulgar or eccentric in a humorous or tongue-in-cheek manner; campy: "funky caricatures of sexpot glamour" (Pauline Kael).

Food for thought. Well the sponsor of the challenge this week is Kenny K so I went with section 2 - music - hence the music DP and the colour blue in this card and section 4 - unconventional with a caricature of sexpot glamour.

Kenny K does draw quite a few girls that fall into the category of sexpot glamour. I opted for one of the Steampunk girls - Lady Victoria. Coloured with promarkers.

I teamed her with some steampunk papers from the chronology range from docrafts and a piece from the DCWV heritage stack. Opting for an unconventional blue and brown/rust colour scheme and using the sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday as my inspiration.

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The flowers are a mixture of paper flowers and copper coloured cog die cuts in my stash with copper brads to attach. Ribbon and lace also in stash. The sentiment was stamped onto some little arrow diecuts that were then coloured with blue DI.

I am entering this card into the challenge at

Through the Purple Haze - Funky Girls and Boys

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Their Sketch

Sweet Stamps - Birthday

It's FREEBIE Saturday

The tradition was started a couple of months ago whereby Rick St Dennis would post some freebie digis on the first Saturday of a month to the blogs Sparkle & Glitter with Rick and to Airless Chambers. The more traditional image for everyday use to the Sparkle & Glitter and the edgier image to Airless Chambers. Today is that first Saturday and hence the posts have gone up. Not only is there the opportunity to snag two fabulous images from the pen of Rick but also a chance to win more. All that is needed is for projects to be made using these images and to be linked up to the respective blogs so that the EDT members can come along to your blogs and leave some bloggy love. We will then choose the projects to win and more images will be awarded to the artist that created those projects. Simple! For more details, you'll have to visit both blogs.
For my contribution to the mix of amazing projects from my fellow EDT members I have made a card with Desdemona, who can be found on the Sparkle & Glitter Blog. Then an ATC with the little Running Skull Man found on Airless Chambers.

first up: DESDEMONA

Isn't she a beauty! Coloured with promarkers, added accents with sparkly gel pen and some green stickles  before mounting on some BP from Bobunny, weekend market collection. Some glitter card mats with some old green BP in between that I have stashed away (donated to my stash when I first started card making and not well loved lol). All mounted onto some pale cream homemade paper then the card base. The doilies, again old stash. The sketch used for inspiration can be found on Sweet Sketch Wednesday and the doilies fitted nicely into it.
The flourishes are cut from more of the glitter card with a TH die. Flowers are from stash with a blingy brad to hold together.
A close-up of our leading lady

Next we have this cute little Skully Running Man

 Again, coloured with promarkers before mounting onto an ATC.

He kind of reminded me of Jim Carey in The Mask - hence the green colouration. 

The ATC bg is a stamp from a "Darcie's" set featuring a picture of a haunted house. This was stamped with glue before applying gilding flakes. The sentiment is from the same set and the tag it's on can be swung up behind our little man. A kind of "secret message".

Now get on over to the Sparkle & Glitter and Airless Chambers blogs and snag those freebies. While you're there, do have a wonder through some of the amazing tutorials that have been posted on each. Don't forget to leave Rick some love. He really appreciates it as you can well imagine.

I'd like to enter my Desdemona card into the challenge at
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Used their inspirational sketch
Bloggers Challenge - To Die for - Use a die cut

My ATC and my card both fall into the criteria over at Left of Centre Challenges so will be entering them into their challenge of LOC and/or two designer papers.

Steampunk for Delicious Doodles

Morning peeps. I hope that everyone is safe following the horrific events of this week, both at home and abroad.
It's been a fickle week with the weather here in Scotland. With heavy snow, hail, rain and sunshine all in the space of a few hours, it's hard to decide what to wear let alone plan ahead a few days.
I have not done a great deal of crafting this last fortnight due to DH and his recent stroke but I am happy to report that he is improving, if only slowly. I only wish that the extra stress didn't have such an impact on my fibro, oh well, that's life!

Any way, I have spent a bit of time in my crafty area and come up with a card for the new challenge this week over at Delicious Doodles. The theme this week is STEAMPUNK.

A simple card from me though.

I have used the new "Steampunk Mermaid" and the "Steampunk Corner", both from the Delicious Doodles shop. The layout of the card was based on the sketchy over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Coloured with promarkers before masking and brushing distress inks. Some copper paint to highlight the metal rivets, tail struts and corner cogs. Then matted onto burnt orange and brown.
The BP is from the docrafts "chronology" range, matted onto brown and blue.
The corner cogs are TH diecuts that have been heat embossed with marine frantage enamel in parts for a distressed look.
More diecut cogs in the bottom right of the mermaid, this time from the chronology range.
A copper coloured and blue rikrak ribbons with a couple of punched fleur de lis. Some pearls to finish.

The words "happy birthday" stamped onto another, smaller TH cog diecut.
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Get those fantasy, time pieces, cogs and metallic bits together and make a steampunk themed project. Then come and link it into the challenge blog so that we can ooohhhh and arrrrrrrrr over it.

I'd like to enter this into the challenges at
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - their sketch
C.R.A.F.T. challenge - colour combo (blues and browns)
Crafty Bloggers Network - Tic Tac Toe. The row I chose was gems, stamp, ribbon

Pop-up Butterflies

Over at Stampin' Dymonz' Scrap Shack - The Village, we have a little group that explores a different type of fold for cards each week. This week is the turn of a pop-up card. There are a few different types of pop-up card showcased over at Splitcoast Stampers.
This is the card that I made. It features a load of butterflies, both on the stamp used (unknown origin) and the MS punched variety. This is also being one of 3 I am making for work collegues' birthdays coming up soon.
The stamped image was coloured using a mixture of DI and promarkers.
The BP is just plain cs that was dry embossed with a sizzix plate and a gold ink pad rubbed over it.
Ribbons are from stash. The bow is held in place by a home made ribbon rose. The sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday was followed to produce this.

Inside
The plain pale green was stamped using some foliage stamps from Lavinia Stamps. The pop-up mechanism has some sizzix die leaves adhered to it and some MS punched butterfles. These have been given a light brush over with the same gold pad as the front.

















I am entering this into the following challenge
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 110-32 - Their Sketch
By The Cute and Girly - July challenge - things with Wings

It's Nearly Easter

Well, just over a month to go. Nana Vic was giving this image as a freebie over at CDAC for her embellishment challenge. Easter is not one of the festivals that many celebrate here in Scotland, but I have a few friends that would appreciate something like this.
It's a gatefold card. The BP is papermania's lemon sorbet, lightly ink distressed with "tattered rose".
I loosely followed the sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.
The image is decoupaged and coloured with promarkers with the surrounding panel dry embossed and ink distressed with tattered rose and just a touch of barn door DIs.




The flowers used are lilies and roses from Crafty Feelings with some yellow satin ribbon as well as some cream cotton.
I added a "thorny" copper peeloff all round to represent the crown of thorns as in the image.
A few little buttons to finish. Hopefully, it can be seen that both inside and out were treated to some decoration here.

I am entering this Easter card into a couple of challenges.
Crafter's Companion challenge #10 - Easter
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Their Sketch

Glimmer and glitz

I'm still playing with the "sculpture paper" as detailed in previous posts. This is the last piece I made. This time in shades of green with copper highlights. I like the way it looks in different lights and at different angles.
I loosely followed the sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday incorporating the folded frame as inspired by Tuesday Morning Sketches. I did adapt the normal square somewhat.

The copper glimmer mist came out to give a sheen to some pale jade green/turquoise CS. This was teamed up with some copper pearlised CS to make the card and the folded frame etc.
The sculpture paper was stuck on the copper CS base before the jade/turquoise green that I had cut 2 apertures from.

The folded frame is secured with copper brads and turquoise dew drops



The image is the "Jewelled Fairy" from Delicious Doodles. Coloured using promarkers with some pearlised paints to add some shimmer and a touch of glitter dust to the wings.







Some copper corner peeloffs with more turquoise and copper dewdrops top and bottom.

I am entering this card into the following challenges
Tuesday Morning Sketches - Folded Frame
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch
Delicious Doodles - Glitz, Glamour, Shimmer and Bling
Sparkles Forum - Fairies
Simply Create - Bold and Bright
Stamp Something - Funky
Stamp It Crazy - Free for all
Little Red Wagon - Misting - the CS
Totally Stampalicious - Glitz and Glamour
The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Fancy Folds